Sunday, March 13, 2011

A wonderful review to what looks to be a spark to the corpse of feminism.

From the review:

A key subtext to The Feminist Promise, then, is its
unmistakable cry for a revitalization of the language of sexual equality
in the public sphere. Anyone who believes men and women are now mostly
equal and doubts the need for such a revitalization should be directed
to the following facts: The US has the weakest support network for
mothers and children of any industrialized country; most families with
children in poverty are still headed by single women; about 18 percent
of American women have been victims of an attempted or actual rape; and
about two million women are assaulted each year by a husband or
boyfriend. While white women make 75 cents to a man’s dollar, African
American women make 62 cents, and Latina women 53 cents. Although women
have made strides in levels of education in 2007 the top three jobs for
women were secretaries, registered nurses, and elementary and middle
school teachers. African American women do not have equal access to sex
education and birth control and have twenty-five times the HIV/AIDS
rate of white women. To quote Stanford sociologist Paula England, the
gender revolution has been “uneven and stalled,” and it has benefited
some women more than others.